REMITA BILLER GATEWAY

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• Overview
• Installation
• Usage
• Contributing

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Overview

This is a Node.JS SDK for Remita Billing Gateway

Integrating to Remita for Biller payments SDK enables your customers make payments to billers on Remita through your platform. This provides you with the capability to offer your customers access to the vast array of billers and merchants, including schools, churches, service providers and the Federal Government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) available on Remita to purchase and subscribe to their various products and services.

The process involves your customers selecting a biller to pay via your platform. They will supply payment details and confirm the details so you can debit their account with AmountDue to credit a designated Funds Holding Account. Your customers will be emailed Remita receipts (which are FGN MDA-recognized for TSA-bound payments) for each transaction.

Installation

Package

To install the remita-billing-gateway package, run the following command on your machine.

npm install remita-billing-gateway

Requirements

• Node 10.16.3 or higher
• Javascript IDE

Dependency

• node-fetch

Usage

Prerequisites

Prior to using the SDK, you need to set up an integration profile on Remita if you are not already registered as a merchant/biller on the platform. Each method call will require you to pass the Public key/Secret key. Your public and secret keys are located at the Billing page on your profile. After you login, click "Setup Billing" at your dashboard >> click "Proceed" on the "Yes" option for the integration question that comes up >> to display the Public/Secret key.

Configuration

All biller credentials needed to use the SDK are being setup by instantiating the Credential Class and set properties in this class accordingly. Properties such as public_key, secret_key, and environment are mandatory while read_timeout and connection_timeout can be set to zero (0).

Field	Type	Required	Description
publicKey	String	Yes	Located at the Billing page of your Remita profile on www.remita.net.
secretKey	String	Yes	Located at the Billing page of your Remita profile on www.remita.net.
environment	String	Yes	SetEnvironment.DEMO for Demo environment, While SetEnvironment.LIVE for Production environment.
readTimeOut	Number	No	The timeout on waiting to read data.
connectionTimeOut	Number	No	The timeout in making the initial connection.

Sample

    const { RemitaService } = require('./init');


    var publicKey = 'MDcwfDQwODE2OTg2fDI3MzY4NTc5MThkY2E0MDY5ZWFlN2JlOWRiNmUzNzMzMjc5NDdjYmMyZTM1NjAwM2I1N2NjMDgzMTdlYjIxMWMyNDgxYTc0Zjk4MGI4NzdhMDUwMzA1ZjgzNDlmNzU5NTRlZTVmOThiYjFmMTM4MTZjZjI2NWRhZDdmNjBjOTMz';
    var secretKey = 'cf51f77193fa9dd763cc6cf45887b874e99950053f9da0029a284a53c29ad7561423461930d0807d0d7e7ccbb305744968d8dc47b1018ee39a046b6e0a6e6f92';
    var environment = RemitaService.SetEnvironment.DEMO;
    //Optional Credentials
    var readTimeOut = 0;
    var connectionTimeOut = 0;
    
    var credential = new RemitaService.Credentials(publicKey, secretKey, environment, readTimeOut, connectionTimeOut);
    const remitaBillingGateway =  new RemitaService.RemitaBillingGateway(credential);

Methods

Get Biller(s)

This returns a list of the billers, merchants and MDAs available on Remita.

    var requestId = "545346";
    var billerPayload = new GetBillerPayload(requestId);
    var billerList = remitaBillingGateway.getBillers(billerPayload)
        .then((body)=>body)
        .catch((err)=>err);

billerList attributes

billerList returns promise value

Name	Type
responseCode	String
responseMsg	String
appVersionCode	String
responseData	Object

Get Service Types

This returns a list of products and services associated with specified billers on Remita.

    var requestId = "545346";
    var billerId = "QATEST";
    const servicePayload = new GetServicePayload(requestId, billerId)
    var serviceList = remitaBillingGateway.getServiceTypes(servicePayload)
        .then((body)=>body)
        .catch((err)=>err);

serviceList attributes

serviceList returns promise value

Name	Type
responseCode	String
responseMsg	String
appVersionCode	String
responseData	Object

Get Custom Fields

Custom fields are additional information specific to a service/product offered for sale by a biller. A service/product may or may not have custom fields defined. This method returns a list of the custom fields associated with a specific product/service offered by a biller on the platform.

    var requestId = "545346";
    var billId = "25083618";
    const getFieldPayload = new CustomFieldPayload(requestId, billId)
    var customFieldList = remitaBillingGateway.getCustomFields(getFieldPayload)
        .then((body)=>body)
        .catch((err)=>err);

customFieldList attributes

customFieldList returns promise value

Name	Type
responseCode	String
responseMsg	String
appVersionCode	String
responseData	Object
acceptPartPayment	String
fixedPrice	String
fixedAmount	float
currency	String

Get RRR Details

If your customer already has a Remita Retrieval Reference (RRR) before logging on to your online platform, he/she can also still process payment to Remita billers. They can supply the RRR, verify the RRR to display payment details associated with it before completing the payment. This method makes the call to verify the RRR.

    var requestId = "545346";
    var rrr = "300007775870";
    const rrrDetailPayload = new GetRrrDetailPayload(requestId, rrr)
    var getRrrDetail = remitaBillingGateway.getRrrDetails(rrrDetailPayload)
        .then((body)=>body)
        .catch((err)=>err);

getRrrDetail attributes

getRrrDetail returns promise value

Name	Type
responseCode	String
responseMsg	String
appVersionCode	String
responseData	Object

Validate Request

You need to make a request for Remita to execute a validation operation on the details retrieved to check the validity of the data. This serves to ensure that the details being passed for payment are viable and will derive an amount payable to generate a Remita Retrieval Reference (RRR) successfully. This method enables you make this call towards generating an RRR for payment.

    var billId = '25083618';
    var amount = 1000;
    var payerPhone = '08085519759';
    var currency = 'NGN';
    var payerName = 'Tokunbo Omonubi';
    var payerEmail = 't.omonubi@gmail.com';
    var requestId = '80934580';
    
    var value1 =  new Values('25083616', 1, 1000);
    var value2 =  new Values('Amount', 0, 1000);
    
    var customField1 = new CustomField('25083613', [value1]);
    var customField2 = new CustomField('25083617', [value2]);
    
    const validateReqPayload = new ValidateRequestPayload([customField1, customField2], billId, amount, payerPhone, currency,
        payerName, payerEmail, requestId);
    var validateRequestResponse = remitaBillingGateway.validate(validateReqPayload)
        .then((body)=>body)
        .catch((err)=>err);

validateRequestResponse attributes

validateRequestResponse returns promise value

Name	Type
responseCode	String
responseMsg	String
appVersionCode	String
responseData	Object

Generate RRR

In order to complete the transaction through the Remita Payment Gateway, a Remita Retrieval Reference or RRR is required. This is what uniquely identifies and embodies the payment details of a transaction on the platform ecosystem. Calling this method will generate an RRR for the biller payment.

    var billId = '25083618';
    var amount = 1000;
    var payerPhone = '08085519759';
    var currency = 'NGN';
    var payerName = 'Tokunbo Omonubi';
    var payerEmail = 't.omonubi@gmail.com';
    var requestId = '80934580';
    
    var value1 =  new Values('25083616', 1, 1000);
    var value2 =  new Values('Amount', 0, 1000);

    var customField1 = new CustomField('25083613', [value1]);
    var customField2 = new CustomField('25083617', [value2]);
    
    const rrrPayload = new GenerateRrrPayload([customField1, customField2], billId, amount, payerPhone, currency,
        payerName, payerEmail, requestId);
    var genRrrResponse = remitaBillingGateway.generateRrr(rrrPayload)
        .then((body)=>body)
        .catch((err)=>err);

genRrrResponse attributes

genRrrResponse returns promise value

Name	Type
responseCode	String
responseMsg	String
appVersionCode	String
responseData	Object

Bill Payment Notification

After you have debit the customer with the RRR amount (amountDue) to process the payment, you are required to notify Remita with details of the transaction. Calling this method will send a payment notification for the transaction to Remita accordingly.

    var rrr = '300007775870';
    var incomeAccount = '0001061499';
    var debittedAccount = '0035509366';
    var paymentAuthCode = '5467890968';
    var paymentChannel = 'INTERNETBANKING';
    var tellerName = 'INTERNETBANKING';
    var branchCode = '';
    var amountDebitted = '0';
    var fundingSource = 'TOKS';
    var requestId = "6479848737";
    
    const notificationPayload = new BillerNotificationPayload(requestId, rrr, incomeAccount, debittedAccount, paymentAuthCode, paymentChannel,
        tellerName, branchCode, amountDebitted, fundingSource);
    var notification = remitaBillingGateway.billNotification(notificationPayload)
        .then((body)=>body)
        .catch((err)=>err);

notification attributes

notification returns promise value

Name	Type
responseCode	String
responseMsg	String
appVersionCode	String
iResponseCode	String
iResponseMessage	String
responseData	Object

Transaction Status

You may need to enquire that status of biller payments your customers have made via the Bill Payment Notification API.

    var requestId = "53454";
    var transactionId = "1540915827487";
    const pymtStatusPayload = new GetPaymentStatusPayload(requestId, transactionId)
    var paymentStatusResponse = remitaBillingGateway.paymentStatus(pymtStatusPayload)
        .then((body)=>body)
        .catch((err)=>err);

paymentStatusResponse attributes

paymentStatusResponse returns promise value

Name	Type
responseCode	String
responseMsg	String
appVersionCode	String
iResponseCode	String
iResponseMessage	String
responseData	Object

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Contributing

• To contribute to this repo, follow these guidelines for creating issues, proposing new features, and submitting pull requests:

Fork the repository.

1. Create a new branch: git checkout -b "feature-name"
2. Make your changes and commit: git commit -m "added some new features"
3. Push your changes: git push origin feature-name
4. Submit a Pull Request (PR).

Useful links

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Support

• For all other support needs, support@remita.net